netdev - Re: a propose of snmp counter document

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpUZockMcbySydZ688quuotkYRhF=pu2Ofs_wjvBAXDZVQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:05:12 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     yupeng0921@...il.com
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: a propose of snmp counter document

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:10 AM peng yu <yupeng0921@...il.com> wrote:
>
> I'm planing to write a document which explains the meaning of the
> kernel snmp counters, and combine the explanations with some tests,
> because I found lots of the 'TcpExt' and 'IpExt' counters are not
> explained in any document. Here is a draft:
> https://github.com/yupeng0921/iproute2_learning/blob/master/nstat.md
> It is still on going. I think it might be useful. Besides put it on my
> git repo, could someone have any suggestion about any place I
> could contribute this document to?

Good work! It has been in my todo list for a long time.

I believe we have enough room in Documentation/networking/
for it. You can follow the normal patch submission process to
contribute to upstream:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html


Thanks!